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In her review of Robert Bartlett’s Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?, a study of the Christian cult of saints from the martyrs to the Reformation (Books, 19/26 December), Helen Fulton helpfully...
In her review of Robert Bartlett’s Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?, a study of the Christian cult of saints from the martyrs to the Reformation (Books, 19/26 December), Helen Fulton helpfully...
Sheila Fitzpatrick has written an enthralling and lightly humorous account, A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia, of the trials and tribulations of researching in the Soviet archives...
In reference to Daniel Sokol’s letter “Legal allies in student David v Goliath battles” (2 January): in my experience, student advisers almost always assist in “the drafting of the critical ‘appeal...
In relating how scholars from outside the European Union struggle with the UK’s visa regime, the feature “Life on the edge” (2 January) focuses on harsh rejections, administrative errors and...
I thoroughly agree with the basic tenets of the feature “I shouldn’t really be here” (9 January). A group of us at the European Association for Institutional Research recently identified that we all...
The article “Poorer students present ‘financial risk’ ” (9 January) provides a thought-provoking insight into the link between retention and low socio-economic status. It focuses on higher education...

Shocking new statistics reveal that our university leads the field in the number of times it has refused to answer Freedom of Information requests

Studying how subjects have waxed and waned in popularity reveals some striking changes and some difficult questions

Dismissed Queen Mary lecturer Fanis Missirlis claims appraisal metrics set at level to deliberately exclude him

Early career life scientists have teaching and administrative burden lifted

A new campus site is taking shape in the ‘learning quarter’ of Birmingham city centre

Boosting skills and access are the aims of a new Portuguese-medium platform

The late public health specialist Patricia Buffler is alleged to have had conflicts of interest

Soon after I started graduate school in history at Princeton University in 1970, I joined the American Studies Association and have been a faithful member ever since. I have served on the editorial...

Work is under way to ensure that big data do not mean big headaches for researchers in the physical sciences